PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Scientific Method, Standard Deviation, Descriptive Statistics

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Patrick Carolan

Document Summary

Characteristics of scientific research: veriabfable, public, parsimonious, cumulative. The 5 goals of psychology: prescribe, predict ---- look at notes. The "story of psychology: early thinkers and researchers. Helmholtz (reaction time)and ebbinghaus (in text -- memory. Wundt and james (father of america psych--functionalism), and psychology as science. Titchner and gs, hall (students of wundt) Tabala rasa: humans are born as a blank slave. Free will: ability to choose what you want to choose. Psychodynamic: freud, jung, and the conflicts of the unconsciousness. Humanist: maslow, karl rogers, basic goodness models. Behaviorism: goals, pavlov, stimulus and response, watson and tabila rasa, skinner and free will. Cognitive: revolutions of 50s and 60s, brains as computers, al, gestalt psychology, noam. Cultural: cross-cultural absolutism and relatism of psychological phenomena. Neuroscience: lining psych and cognition to brain and bodily activity. The scientific method: theory, hypothesis, testing (design, collect, analyse), integration. Look at the pig ethical question on slide.